Human Infection with Rickettsia Honei, Thailand

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2005 Oct 19

PMID 16229787

Citations 20

Authors

Ju Jiang

Vichai Sangkasuwan

Kriangkrai Lerdthusnee

Suchitra Sukwit

Thippawan Chuenchitra

Patrick J Rozmajzl

Chirapa Eamsila

James W Jones

Allen L Richards

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Abstract

Human spotted fever rickettsiosis was detected molecularly by 2 real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays performed on DNA extracted from a Thai patient's serum sample. Sequences of PCR amplicons from 5 rickettsial genes used for multilocus sequence typing were 100% identical with those deposited with GenBank for Rickettsia honei TT-118.

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